William Calvin Smith
USA Guide 2023
Band 3 : Corporate/M&A
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Provided by William Calvin Smith
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For over 25 years, Cal Smith has been involved in numerous high profile M&A and other complex corporate transactions for public companies, including spin-offs, buyouts and other special situations. He has extensive experience counseling boards of directors, CEOs and other C-Suite executives with respect to shareholder and stakeholder activism, proxy fights and preparedness, takeover defense and corporate governance as well as fiduciary duties and risk oversight, including as to ESG, cybersecurity and engaging with institutional investors and other key governance constituencies.
Mr. Smith co-leads King & Spalding’s Public Companies Practice Group and has been recognized as a leading lawyer in the Corporate/M&A/Governance categories.